Clarion 1938-02-00 Vol 17 No 05

THE BETHEL CLARION
Vol. XVII, No. 5 BETHEL INSTITUTE, ST. PAUL, MINN. February, 1938
Spring Tour to Take
Male Chorus
Through Minnesota
Singers Will Spend Two
Weeks in State Tour
The Male Chorus has completed
plans for their annual spring tour.
This year their itinerary takes them
through Minnesota.
Beginning April 18 in the South-eastern
corner they will visit Bap-tist
churches in the State complet-ing
the trip by April 30. Houston,
Brainerd, Parkers Prairie, Fergus
Falls, Cook, Virginia, Duluth, and
Cambridge are among the points to
be touched.
Preceding the tour the men will
give a concert in the First Swedish
Baptist Church, Minneapolis, on
March 11. This program will be
held under the auspices of the
Bethel Women's Federation.
Far West Churches Back
Better Bethel Campaign
"Greetings to all from the denom-inational
pilgrim," comes from Beth-el's
President, Dr. G. Arvid Hag-strom,
who is on the last lap of his
Pacific Coast trip to solicit funds
for the Junior College. Dr. Hag-strom
will return to Bethel on Fri-day,
February 18, only to prepare
for his Eastern itinerary, beginning
February 25.
The President has plans to meet
with about twenty-five churches
during his trip to the East, as well
as attend some of the meetings of
the American Foreign Mission
Board, of which he is a member, be-tween
February 28 and March 2.
His visitations will take him into
the states of New York, Connecti-cut,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsyl-vania,
and Ohio. his last meeting be-ing
in Cleveland, Ohio, on March
27, after which he will return to St.
Paul.
We spent an afternoon in down-town
St. Paul last week, and were
not a little impressed with the elab-orate
valentine displays in all the
stores. We saw all kinds—a few fra-gile
lacy ones, fragrant with old-fashioned
sentiments, humorous
jointed ones performing all sorts of
antics in the process of saying, "Be
my Valentine," dollar ones, penny
ones and a disgusting majority of
those that hinted of burlesque. Wha t
is the story back of all these thou-sands
of little missives with their
lines of "love-ly" verse?
It seems that it was the custom
in olden days for the young folks to
gather together on the eve of St.
Valentine, and after inscribing their
names on little billets, draw them
lottery fashion. The person thus
Dr. F. Agar Lectures to
Ministerial Students
Prolonged chapel services in the
Bethel Seminary on February 8 and
9 featured Dr. Frederic Agar in
practical lectures to the ministerial
students.
Dr. Agar is the Stewardship and
Efficiency secretary of the Northern
Baptist convention.
The Seminary chapel was well
over crowded at the very first lec-ture;
many college students showed
their interest by attending the ses-sions
with paper and pencil. Fol-lowing
the combined chapel service
in the college building the last day,
Dr. Agar continued here again in a
two-period lecture on practical
problems.
Speaker Is "Church
Efficiency Expert"
Dr. Agar has become widely
known as the "Church Efficiency
Expert." Formerly he has served
as missionary in Africa, as pioneer
evangelist on the frontier, as pas-tor,
written many books on church
problems, and now is engaged in
traveling through the country lec-turing
on church efficiency to the
ministers as well as to the laity.
Speaking on the duties of minis-ters,
the speaker centered his dis-cussion
on the following headings:
a minister should promulgate the
truth as found in the Word of God;
teach and train his church leaders;
care for the sick, afflicted and un-saved;
be a salesman of the Gospel;
and live a balanced play life.
Primary Objective Is Care of
Sick, Afflicted, and Unsaved
"Sixty per cent of the ministers'
time should be spent in preparation;
uninterrupted study," sums up Dr.
Agar's advice on the minister's
study habits. However, he empha-sized
that "a visit to the sick will
give the sermon the flavor; pri-marily
the objective of the ministry
is the care of the sick, afflicted and
unsaved. Ministers have no note of
power in their preaching because
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drawn became one's valentine, and
for a whole year the young man
was bound to his valentine lady.
These imaginary engagements often
ripened into real ones, because as
Mission, a learned traveler in the
early part of the seventeenth cen-tury
said, "the man stuck faster to
the valentine that had fallen to him
than to her to whom he had fallen."
The connection of this custom
with St. Valentine is purely acci-dental.
It is probable that the cus-tom
of choosing valentines is a relic
of the primitive form of religion in
North West Europe; because at
about this time of the year the birds
choose their mates and so it is only
natural that young men and women
should choose Valentines or special
friends on this day.
The result of a complete reor-ganization
of the gospel teams is
that four gospel teams with four
new leaders instead of the five
teams of last semester are engaged
in the work this semester. The new
leaders are: Herschel Rogers, Wil-lard
Anderson, Earl Sherman, and
Robert Peterson.
New fields of service are being
opened. The schedule at Ancker
Hospital has been doubled. Mrs.
McRae has given some of the girls
the opportunity to help her with
her prison work. She has also prom-ised
to try to make arrangements
for some of the young men to get
into prison work. Sam Schultz has
been going with a group from Elim
church to the Morris Home Mission
in South Minneapolis. Sunday, Feb-ruary
20, a group is going to the
Central Free Church in Minneapolis.
CALENDAR
February
21 Missionary Band.
22 Founders Day.
23 Alexis society.
25 Basketball at New Ulm.
26 Basketball at Bethany
College.
March
2 Missionary Band.
9 College Club.
11 Male Chorus concert.
16 Alexis society.
Alexis Program Stresses
Life of Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, the great Amer-ican
whose birthday we recently
celebrated, was honored at the
Alexis meeting of Feb. 9. Two brief
addresses were presented by Carl
Young and Raymond Martin, stu-dents
in the Seminary, bringing out
various aspects of his life.
Other features of the evening were
trumpet solos by Kermit Johnson
and the treatment of the extem-poraneous
topic "To what extent
should a preacher's wife enter into
the activities of the church?" by
Florence Lindstrom.
The new president of the society,
Andrew Sinkiewicz led the meeting
and Bruce Fleming led in Scripture
reading and prayer.
Women's Federation Refurnishes
Seminary Reading Room
Recently the Women's Federation
refurnished the Seminary reading
room with several new chairs, a
new rug and drapes. New wall
magazine racks constructed by the
N. Y. A. have been installed.
Some new equipment has been
placed in the Seminary kitchen and
dining hall.
For years Bethel students have
looked forward to the day when
they could purchase a bus to aid in
gospel team activity. Definite plans
for purchasing and operating a gos-pel
team bus are being formulated
by the Student Council headed by
Edward Nelson. The goal is to pur-chase
the new bus, a 1938 model of
standard body construction which
will comfortably seat 10 or 12, by
spring.
It is hoped that the Minnesota
B. Y. P. U. will buy the bus in con-junction
with Bethel. Under this
arrangement, Bethel will have
charge of it in the spring and the
Minnesota Baptist young people in
the winter. No definite word has
been received from the group as yet.
Bus To Be Highly Insured for
Fire, Theft, and Collision
Purchase of the bus is further
complicated because of a 50,000 dol-lar
insurance for fire, theft, and
collision which will be carried on
the bus.
The bus will be tax exempt under
a provision of the state which ex-empts
busses which transport stu-dents
from tax.
There is 200 dollars in the Bus
Fund with 75 dollars receivable
from pledges.
Olson '36 Honored
At School Reception
Rev. Aleck Olson, '36 Seminary
graduate who has been accepted as
a missionary in Northern Africa un-der
the Sudan Interior Mission, was
honored at an all school reception
held in the College Chapel Monday
evening, February 14.
The talk by Rev. Mr. Olson was
the main event of the program ten-dered
in his honor. The girls trio,
Ruth Olson, Dorothy Beckman, and
Doris Moberg; a duet by John Va-line
and Gordon Peterson; a trum-pet
solo by Kermit Johnson pre-sented
musical numbers.
Charges to the missionary were
given by Dr. K. J. Karlson in be-half
of the school and Andrew Sin-kiewicz
for the student body, and
Dr. Ahlquist for the Alumni.
Refreshments and an informal
song fest climaxed the event.
Electrician Is
On Chautauquan Series
Glenn Morris, noted electrician
entertained and enlightened a large
group showing the wonders of the
electrical phenomena at a Chautau-quan
program held in the college
Tuesday evening, Feb. 8. Mr. Mor-ris
showed how one might light the
fire or put up a flag by means of
the radio. He also demonstrated
that high frequency current will not
kill if properly handled.
Students Plan Purchase of Bus
for Gospel Team Activity
Seek A New 1938 Model Bus; Teams Are
Reorganized With College Men As Leaders
Oh Please! Won't You Be My Valentine?
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THE BETHEL CLARION
BETHEL INSTITUTE
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ADVISERS
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Entered as second-class matter October 9, 1935 at the postoffice
at St. Paul, Minnesota under the act of March 3, 1879.
Did We Sound Sick and How!
At the conference game with Bethany Col-lege,
our visitors traveled about 80 miles to al-most
out number and most assuredly out cheer
the latent school spirited Bethel student body.
Why? One group went here; another went
there on Gospel teams. A few didn't go any-where.
As a consequence there were only a
few boosters at the game.
We do not minimize gospel team to basket-ball.
We do maintain that they are both im-portant
to a well balanced school life. We need
to spread the gospel while we are at school, but
we realize that the aspiring Christian worker,
the pastor, who has developed interests in extra
curricular activities, will find it much easier to
meet people, to talk to them, and to gain a
point of contact with them.
Isn't our difficulty in a lack of cooperation
in the major extra curricular activities? Can't
some changes be made that the student body
could attend conference games en masse and
on nights of gospel team lend their whole
hearted support to it? It gives appearance of a
problem of coordination to be solved by the
student council.
Want to develop school spirit? Avoid as
many conflicting extra curricular activities as
possible. Back up your Gospel team on Gospel
team night; when the night for the game comes
turn out to root and cheer for Bethel!
Timid Tid-Bits
Wasn't your envy aroused when Bethany
College sang their school song so spiritedly at
the game here? The Bethel school song con-test
closes March 1.
A few couples, daring wagging tongues, and
twinkling eyes are making their debut in Bethel
social ranks these pre-spring days. It's in the
air! Soon the most confirmed bachelor and
most invincible maid will be enticed to the
soft, sweet whispers of spring.
A few comebacks on the last issue came to
ye editor's ears after the last Clarion had been
carefully digested. One said that it was
"trashy;" another that it contained editorial
material that should have been presented per-sonally
rather than being broadcasted in the
paper. The comments do not fall on deaf ears.
We want criticism not soft soap.
Just Filling Space
Yawning depths of white space stare at us
out of the editorial column. Vague ideas flutter
into mind—flutter out.
Topics of war, politics, etc., are well covered
in various papers. We have touched, "Tardi-ness
in Chapel," "School Spirit" and a host of
subjects often spoken about but seldom acted
on.
We feel that we're about "editorialed" out.
However we realize the inconsistency of it es-pecially
when the words of Dr. F. Agar, recent
chapel speaker, are recalled, "There is that
which giveth that tendeth to increase, there is
that which witholdeth that tendeth to lose!"
A friend of Oliver Wendell Holmes reproach-ed
him for giving so many of his ideas in con-versation
hinting that they should be written
out for they had merchantable value. Holmes
replied that the mind must give its thoughts
that new ones may be given birth or it becomes
dulled and stagnant.
The expression of one idea brings out an-other,
a better one, it grows until it may as-sume
great proportions. It may become a
great book. It may be a message that shall live
long in the minds of the hearers.
Flunking
Flunking is a problem. Recently students
at Rhode Island University formed a Student
Protective Insurance Company which pays for
College make up exam fees to policy holders.
The company also gives tips on how to pass
to undergraduates who pay up their premiums.
Oklahoma University takes an opposite step
and will charge a three dollar fee per semester
hour to the student who flunks a course. The
administration feels that such a policy will
tend to weed out the careless and indifferent
student and that he should help lighten the
burden of the conscientious student by pay-ing
this fee.
How about the student who is conscientious
in his work but fails in a subject? The "F" is
discouraging enough without the extra fee. He
who flunks one or two subjects and hopes to
keep on will pay, the careless student will likely
leave school and the bill.
Such a plan will cause the student to choose
his course more carefully so that he can give
his best effort and whole interest to those sub-jects
he has signed up for.
Devotions
"And when I saw him I fell at his feet as
one dead." Rev. 1:17
The Apostle John is the penman of this
verse. He is describing the reaction that came
over him when he vouchsafed the vision of the
glorified Christ, walking among the seven
golden lamp-stands. He tells us that when he
"saw Him he fell at his feet as one dead."
As we think about this verse one thought
sweeps over us. It is just this. We too need to
see our risen Christ as He really is, in all His
majesty, glory and power even as John saw
Him. Why do we waste so much time on the
trivial things in life and spend so little time
in prayer? Why do we show such a great lack
of faith and suffer so many defeats? Why do
we deal so carelessly with the things of God
as to become almost irreverant at times? Why
do we allow petty sins to have a place in our
lives and make them unlovely? Isn't it a fact
that these things are true in the experience of
many of us because we haven't the conscious-ness
that Christ who is always by our side is
the Christ of the first chapter of Revelation.
May God give us the grace to be able to
really see Him. Certainly we all need to pray,
"Open thou mine eyes 0 God, that I might
see!"
Clayton Bolinder.
On Research
The other evening at the Chautau-quan
program, Glen Morris made
the statement that if there was any
apparent confusion between religion
and science, it was in the mind of
the individual and not in any dis-agreement
between the two. This
same statement was made by one
of our own pastors some years ago
who put the thought in these words:
that true religion and true science
do not run contrary to one another.
Glen Morris also brought out the
thought that man's knowledge is
being used for destructive rather
than for constructive purposes. His
reference was made especially to
war in which natural resources are
employed in the annihilation rather
than in a building up of society.
Science endeavors to find the so-lution
to many of the problems con-nected
with everyday life. An ex-ample
of this can be made by men-tioning
the advancement made by
medicine in its fight against some
of the most disastrous diseases.
During the six days of creation,
man was made last and with com-plete
domination over all of the
other creations of the Lord. This
placed him with special responsibil-ity
towards his own Creator. The
mind which was given to man was
given him so that he might under-stand
many of the secrets of God.
It seems that as time has gone on
since the beginning, more and more
of the wonderful secrets of the al-mightiness
of the Creator have been
discovered. One is surprised when
he realizes that many scientists who
study the great processes of life do
not come to the one and final con-clusion
that behind all things there
is one Almighty Power.
The more and more that any man
delves into the secrets of life, the
more he should become aware of the
fact that the things of the Universe
have not come to pass by chance,
but have come into being, only after
a very careful planning by One who
is the Lord of the Universe.
Appreciation of these facts allows
the young person to pursue scien-tific
research with the hopes of find-ing
still greater wells of faith in
the Lord who made the heavens and
the earth. The Lord has made all
things including man and he has
made man to have dominion over
all things. Research, therefore, is
only a tool given to man to discover
greater reservoirs of faith in the
omnipotence of the Almighty One.
Emery A. Johnson.
"For Me to Live Is Christ"
Is Theme of Meeting
"For me to live is Christ," was
the theme of the Bethel women's
association meeting on Thursday
afternoon, Feb. 10. The theme was
developed in three talks—Mildred
Synnes speaking on "For Me,"
Ethel Ahlquist on "To Live," and
Alice Anderson on "Is Christ."
Ruth Nielson sang two solos. Cab-inet
one, under the leadership of
Dorothy Beckman, had charge of
the program and social hour.
The Bethel Women's association
is a new organization for the worn-en
of Bethel and has for its purpose
the helping of its members to de-velop
a well rounded Christian life,
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(With all due apologies to the Bard
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nor wisdom, style nor color have
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with scornful glance nor loathly
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by his auditory organ, and laying
thy expository thumb upon his
written sin, rebuke him thus, "Thou
errest here, and here judicious ones
must surely grieve. Thy youth dost
handicap thee dreadfully but that
great master artificer, Time, may
mend in years to come thy dis-located
joints; and, aye, mayhap if
Fortune smiles, thou mayest even
yet with me possess the Mt. Perfec-tion."
If thus thou speakest, he will
humbly bow and thank thee for thy
gracious words.
I do purpose if mind and Muse
permit
To pen some thoughts that through
my head do flit,
Though they may range from stern
philosophy
To dissertations on the joys of
coffee.
On customs, rules, and school tra-ditions
I'll zoom to Parnassus and swoop to
perdition.
On subjects as low as a class in Zoo
To worries as great as your tuition
dough,
None shall elude, my blundering
pen,
None shall find refuge beyond my
ken.
Nor shall mere bursts poetic, pro-saic
Compose the limit of my column's
mosaic,
The Muses nine I'll essay to ensnare
And drag them here, by jinks, by
the hair.
Of course just how, or when, or
where this task
I shall perform, tush, tush, don't
ask.
All I can say is have patience, dear
one,
And peruse the next issue of the
Clarion.
Yours, dedicatorily,
Sententious Cyrus.
"God always was; God always
was God; God created this world.
We are foolish if we serve anyone
else but God; man can fit into no
one else but God because we are
made in the image of God."
Rev. Thomas Williamson.
Dr. F. Agar Lectures
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they don't speak with sinners."
In emphasizing the duties of the
church members, the expert pointed
out that they should take care of
the laity, the deacon should be the
"door to the church" and the "door
out of the church," and all should
support the pastor "regardless of
dislike as long as his character is
good."
Books written by Dr. Agar are
the following: "Local Church";
"Church Offices"; "The Deacon at
Work"; "The Minister and Oppor-tunity."
Schultz, Ferre, and
Anderson Debate
"Resolved: that the National La-bor
Relations Board should be em-powered
to enforce arbitration in
all industrial disputes" constitutes
the question for Bethel's debate
team consisting of Sam Schultz,
Gustave Ferre, and Willard Ander-son,
under the direction of Burnis
Rogness, coach.
The debate team have participat-ed
in practice debates at Macalester
and Hamline Universities, and also
entered the Red River Valley Tourn-ament
at Concordia College in
Morehead in which thirty-seven
schools with ninety teams took
part.
Plans for this semester as yet are
not definite. Debates are being
contemplated with Waldorf, Thief
River Falls, and other places.
The debate coach, Burnis Rog-ness,
is now attending the Lutheran
Seminary, previously having been
the champion debater at Augustana
College, Sioux Falls, S. Dak.
Thirty Six Students Make
Institute Honor Roll
"Early to bed, early to rise, makes
a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
In spite of the fact that the first
half of this saying does not apply
to Bethel students, still thirty-six
succeeded in meeting the require-ments
of the honor roll. Everyone
with a "B" or more average is in-cluded
on the list.
In the Junior College, those head-ing
the list are: Florence Dunning,
Luetta Schmidt, Hilton Hanson,
Gerald Ahlquist, Paul Lundgren,
Archie Weniger, Martha McMillen,
Marie Dahlberg, Dorothy Beckman,
Arthur Slaikeu, Ruth Olson, and
Lawrence Lee. Those enrolled in
the Christian Worker's Course with
a "B" average or better are the
following: Winston Sherwick, Mil-dred
Synnes, Maxine Luhman, Phyl-lis
Swanson, and Olga Shenning.
In the Seminary the following
students had all "A's": Clayton Bo-linder,
Edward Nelson, Lois Sorley,
Wilbur Sorley, and Herman Tegen-feldt.
The following had "A's" and
"B's": Aymond Anderson, Folke
Ferre, Orville Johnson, Maurice
Lawson, Carl Lindman, Florence
Lindstrom, Raymond Martin, Henry
Rahn, Ruth Tegenfeldt, and Maur-ice
Wessman. Bruce Fleming, Rod-ger
Goodman, Egon Hadley, and
Floyd Richert complete the roll in
the Seminary with an average of
"B" or better.
Room Rant
Gordie Anderson isn't the only
one who can seal engagements;
Roger promised to give Ruth a ring
the other night and even specified
the time—thus the reason for Ruth's
phone call at eight that same eve-ning.
. . . Johnnie, Dale, and Folke now
make frequent visits to the girl's
dorm—they are taking piano lessons
(relax again). Enthusiastic Dale in-quired
the exact date of the recital
after his lesson.
. . . February 14 found the girls'
dorm flooded with candy and flow-ers
from thoughtful friends at home
—young gentlemen and otherwise
(the otherwise referring to families.)
. . . Keep it quiet, but Muriel
Trowbridge has two very attentive
cousins. They have good-lookin'
uniforms and everythin'.
. . . Carol Wuerch has already
reached the place of receiving at
least one 'phone call daily from the
same person. Wonder what the
others lack? By the way, their
chief topic of conversation seems to
be radio programs.
. . . D. D. seems to have lost in-terest
in the girls at the dorm. Some
outside attraction seems to be tak-ing
most of her time. Kinda tough,
tho, with only one late leave. Last
week, after that one was gone, she
decided to entertain her company
at the dormitory after 10:30, but
evidently Mrs. Lee thought Dorothy
needed sleep, and therefore broke
up the party.
. . . It has been rumored that
Carol Nelson is going to publish a
booklet "How to Get Plenty of
Sleep Without Going to Bed." She
experimented herself during exam
week by not getting between the
sheets from Sunday until Friday.
The secret seems to be: take a little
nap whenever you feel like it and
wherever you are.
. . . Ten good-sized girls pounced
in on poor little Neoma the other
night to give her an initiation bath-tub
party. The joke was reversed
when the tiny victim calmly walked
to the bathroom and got in without
any assistance.
Boarding Club Adds
To Working Force
Because of an increased number
of members of the boarding club,
the club board met, February 11
and hired another student, a girl,
to work in the kitchen.
The naming of another to the
kitchen force increases their num-ber
to six students and the cook.
Two college students are in charge
of the College "Coffee Shoppe."
About 80 students take their meals
at the Seminary dining hall. This
is an increase of 20 over last year.
Members of the board are Pierre
Tangent, steward; Kermit Johnson,
secretary; Carl Holmberg, Clifford
Dickau, and Harold Wilson. Dr. K.
J. Karlson is adviser to the board.
"II Cor. 5 should be read the first
day of every year; it contains so
many 'new things': a new birth, a
new home, a new faith, a new ob-ject,
a new attitude, a new occupa-tion,
and a new ambition." Rev.
Ralph Stewart.
Heard in Chapel
"Missions are a command but God
does not use force; our obedience is
voluntary."
"Loyalty should be to the church,
not to any one department."
"Worshipping, witnessing, serv-ing,
and giving are the requirement
—or rather should be—of those who
enter church; we could drop sixty
per cent of our church members
and still be stronger than we are
now." Dr. F. Agar.
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February, 1938
Waldorf Warriors
Outclass
Bethel Team
Scanlon of Waldorf
Best on Floor
The Waldorf cagers, in a fast, ex-citing
basketball game, outclassed a
stubborn, hard-fighting Bethel team
on the Bethel floor, Feb. 4.
The Waldorf Warriors grabbed an
early lead and maintained it
throughout the first half though
Bethel continually threatened to
break in and take the lead. Coming
back for the second half with the
score 15-14 in favor of the Warriors
from Forest City, the Bethel team
gave everything they had in a des-perate
effort to eke out a victory.
Their effort looked as if it might
bring results.
Throughout the third and part of
the fourth quarter, Bethel kept a
two to four point lead. But the pace
proved too swift and the race too
hard for the Bethel five and Wal-dorf,
with their star forward, Scan-lon,
suddenly finding his eye, put
on a last spurt that netted them the
victory. Scanlon, with his fast
break and dead shot, was the out-standing
player on the floor.
In a preliminary game the Bethel
"B" team were edged out by Min-nehaha
Academy 28-27.
Red and White Play
New Ulm for Win
After five straight attempts to
break into the win column in the
conference games, the Bethel cagers
finally succeeded in defeating New
Ulm 19-15 on Bethel's floor. The
game was slow. Bethel played the
worst brand of ball displayed this
season. It was saved from defeat
by New Ulm being unable to take
advantage of the breaks. Richert
and A. Johnson led the scoring for
Bethel gaining 13 points between
them.
Cagers Win Return Game
With "U" Farm School
Bethel for the second time this
season won over the University
Farm school 23-14 after defeating
them 47-13 on their own floor earlier
in the season. Both teams showed
plenty of fight. Bethel showed dis-tinct
improvement in handling the
ball and in their passing.
In a preliminary game the Bethel
"B" team defeated the Farm School
"B" team 25-9.
Bethany College Cops Win
From Red and White
Trying desperately after four
straight conference defeats to win
from Bethany, Bethel's hopes again
were dashed by the margin of three
baskets. Once more Bethel had the
lead in the third and most of the
fourth quarter only to wilt before
a last minute onslaught, Bethany
winning 30-23.
Girls' Team Wins; Drotz
Takes Scoring Honors
In a preliminary game the Bethel
Girl's team trounced Minneapolis
First Girl's team. Dorothy Drotz
led both teams in scoring, swishing
the hoop for 10 baskets.
ALUMNI
Donald A. Clover '37, graduate of
the Seminary was ordained to the
ministry at Barron, Wisconsin, Jan.
4. Rev. Clover has been pastor of
the Barron Baptist Church for near-ly
a year beginning his work there
before he graduated from the Sem-inary
last spring.
Aleck Olson '36, also a graduate
of the Seminary was recently or-dained
to the ministry at Karlstad,
Minn.
While teaching at Litchfield, Leon-ard
Larson is taking post-graduate
work at the University of Minn.
RLou Markell, infant daughter of
Rev. and Mrs. David Guston has
usurped her parent's place in the
Bristol, Conn. church. Rev. and Mrs.
Guston write that they are enjoy-ing
the work in Bristol.
Ruth Adele Johnson is completing
her fifth year as school nurse in
Omaha, Neb.
The Danish Baptist Church in
Newell, Iowa, welcomed their new
pastor, Rev. Fred Swedberg, and
his wife, Feb. 6.
Another Bethelite to join the mis-sionary
ranks is Viola Steve. Miss
Steve expects to sail for Africa Feb.
24 on the S. S. Deutschland. She will
spend six months in France before
proceeding to Africa.
From Leopoldville, Belgian Con-go,
Africa, Mrs. Harry Watkins
(Linda Erickson) writes: "We are
working every day trying to do our
bit. Harry has the Bookshop, which
he started when he came out. . . .
He sells quite a few things locally
to natives and to missionaries pass-ing
through, but most of the buy-ing
is done by correspondence from
the folks inland. I am doing the
mission treasurer work, or rather
helping Harry with it. Then of
course I have my women's classes
every Wednesday and Thursday, so
you see we both manage to keep
busy."
Penny-A-Meal Contributions
Mount To Nearly $6,000
Penny-a-Meal contributions to
date total $5,973.99. California
churches as well as the Twin City
churches have reported one hun-dred
per cent on Penny-a-Meal re-turns.
The various conferences
have reported as follows:
California Conference $363.38
Columbia Conference 225.45
IIllinois Conference 1207.97
Iowa Conference 210.47
Kansas Conference 56.70
Lower Michigan Conference 163.47
Middle East Conference .... 143.33
Minnesota Conference 2001.67
Nebraska-Colo. Conference 140.04
New England Conference 230.63
New York Conference .... 352.14
North Dakota Conference 19.40
South Dakota Conference 83.60
Upper Michigan Conference 203.94
Wisconsin Conference 381.60
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mother, Marian, is watching her.)
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Marian: Dearest, why are you
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Elizabeth: Oh, mother, I wanted
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Byron.)
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Theodore, her husband.)
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heart. She loves a talented young
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THE BETHEL CLARION
Vol. XVII, No. 5 BETHEL INSTITUTE, ST. PAUL, MINN. February, 1938
Spring Tour to Take
Male Chorus
Through Minnesota
Singers Will Spend Two
Weeks in State Tour
The Male Chorus has completed
plans for their annual spring tour.
This year their itinerary takes them
through Minnesota.
Beginning April 18 in the South-eastern
corner they will visit Bap-tist
churches in the State complet-ing
the trip by April 30. Houston,
Brainerd, Parkers Prairie, Fergus
Falls, Cook, Virginia, Duluth, and
Cambridge are among the points to
be touched.
Preceding the tour the men will
give a concert in the First Swedish
Baptist Church, Minneapolis, on
March 11. This program will be
held under the auspices of the
Bethel Women's Federation.
Far West Churches Back
Better Bethel Campaign
"Greetings to all from the denom-inational
pilgrim," comes from Beth-el's
President, Dr. G. Arvid Hag-strom,
who is on the last lap of his
Pacific Coast trip to solicit funds
for the Junior College. Dr. Hag-strom
will return to Bethel on Fri-day,
February 18, only to prepare
for his Eastern itinerary, beginning
February 25.
The President has plans to meet
with about twenty-five churches
during his trip to the East, as well
as attend some of the meetings of
the American Foreign Mission
Board, of which he is a member, be-tween
February 28 and March 2.
His visitations will take him into
the states of New York, Connecti-cut,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsyl-vania,
and Ohio. his last meeting be-ing
in Cleveland, Ohio, on March
27, after which he will return to St.
Paul.
We spent an afternoon in down-town
St. Paul last week, and were
not a little impressed with the elab-orate
valentine displays in all the
stores. We saw all kinds—a few fra-gile
lacy ones, fragrant with old-fashioned
sentiments, humorous
jointed ones performing all sorts of
antics in the process of saying, "Be
my Valentine," dollar ones, penny
ones and a disgusting majority of
those that hinted of burlesque. Wha t
is the story back of all these thou-sands
of little missives with their
lines of "love-ly" verse?
It seems that it was the custom
in olden days for the young folks to
gather together on the eve of St.
Valentine, and after inscribing their
names on little billets, draw them
lottery fashion. The person thus
Dr. F. Agar Lectures to
Ministerial Students
Prolonged chapel services in the
Bethel Seminary on February 8 and
9 featured Dr. Frederic Agar in
practical lectures to the ministerial
students.
Dr. Agar is the Stewardship and
Efficiency secretary of the Northern
Baptist convention.
The Seminary chapel was well
over crowded at the very first lec-ture;
many college students showed
their interest by attending the ses-sions
with paper and pencil. Fol-lowing
the combined chapel service
in the college building the last day,
Dr. Agar continued here again in a
two-period lecture on practical
problems.
Speaker Is "Church
Efficiency Expert"
Dr. Agar has become widely
known as the "Church Efficiency
Expert." Formerly he has served
as missionary in Africa, as pioneer
evangelist on the frontier, as pas-tor,
written many books on church
problems, and now is engaged in
traveling through the country lec-turing
on church efficiency to the
ministers as well as to the laity.
Speaking on the duties of minis-ters,
the speaker centered his dis-cussion
on the following headings:
a minister should promulgate the
truth as found in the Word of God;
teach and train his church leaders;
care for the sick, afflicted and un-saved;
be a salesman of the Gospel;
and live a balanced play life.
Primary Objective Is Care of
Sick, Afflicted, and Unsaved
"Sixty per cent of the ministers'
time should be spent in preparation;
uninterrupted study," sums up Dr.
Agar's advice on the minister's
study habits. However, he empha-sized
that "a visit to the sick will
give the sermon the flavor; pri-marily
the objective of the ministry
is the care of the sick, afflicted and
unsaved. Ministers have no note of
power in their preaching because
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drawn became one's valentine, and
for a whole year the young man
was bound to his valentine lady.
These imaginary engagements often
ripened into real ones, because as
Mission, a learned traveler in the
early part of the seventeenth cen-tury
said, "the man stuck faster to
the valentine that had fallen to him
than to her to whom he had fallen."
The connection of this custom
with St. Valentine is purely acci-dental.
It is probable that the cus-tom
of choosing valentines is a relic
of the primitive form of religion in
North West Europe; because at
about this time of the year the birds
choose their mates and so it is only
natural that young men and women
should choose Valentines or special
friends on this day.
The result of a complete reor-ganization
of the gospel teams is
that four gospel teams with four
new leaders instead of the five
teams of last semester are engaged
in the work this semester. The new
leaders are: Herschel Rogers, Wil-lard
Anderson, Earl Sherman, and
Robert Peterson.
New fields of service are being
opened. The schedule at Ancker
Hospital has been doubled. Mrs.
McRae has given some of the girls
the opportunity to help her with
her prison work. She has also prom-ised
to try to make arrangements
for some of the young men to get
into prison work. Sam Schultz has
been going with a group from Elim
church to the Morris Home Mission
in South Minneapolis. Sunday, Feb-ruary
20, a group is going to the
Central Free Church in Minneapolis.
CALENDAR
February
21 Missionary Band.
22 Founders Day.
23 Alexis society.
25 Basketball at New Ulm.
26 Basketball at Bethany
College.
March
2 Missionary Band.
9 College Club.
11 Male Chorus concert.
16 Alexis society.
Alexis Program Stresses
Life of Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, the great Amer-ican
whose birthday we recently
celebrated, was honored at the
Alexis meeting of Feb. 9. Two brief
addresses were presented by Carl
Young and Raymond Martin, stu-dents
in the Seminary, bringing out
various aspects of his life.
Other features of the evening were
trumpet solos by Kermit Johnson
and the treatment of the extem-poraneous
topic "To what extent
should a preacher's wife enter into
the activities of the church?" by
Florence Lindstrom.
The new president of the society,
Andrew Sinkiewicz led the meeting
and Bruce Fleming led in Scripture
reading and prayer.
Women's Federation Refurnishes
Seminary Reading Room
Recently the Women's Federation
refurnished the Seminary reading
room with several new chairs, a
new rug and drapes. New wall
magazine racks constructed by the
N. Y. A. have been installed.
Some new equipment has been
placed in the Seminary kitchen and
dining hall.
For years Bethel students have
looked forward to the day when
they could purchase a bus to aid in
gospel team activity. Definite plans
for purchasing and operating a gos-pel
team bus are being formulated
by the Student Council headed by
Edward Nelson. The goal is to pur-chase
the new bus, a 1938 model of
standard body construction which
will comfortably seat 10 or 12, by
spring.
It is hoped that the Minnesota
B. Y. P. U. will buy the bus in con-junction
with Bethel. Under this
arrangement, Bethel will have
charge of it in the spring and the
Minnesota Baptist young people in
the winter. No definite word has
been received from the group as yet.
Bus To Be Highly Insured for
Fire, Theft, and Collision
Purchase of the bus is further
complicated because of a 50,000 dol-lar
insurance for fire, theft, and
collision which will be carried on
the bus.
The bus will be tax exempt under
a provision of the state which ex-empts
busses which transport stu-dents
from tax.
There is 200 dollars in the Bus
Fund with 75 dollars receivable
from pledges.
Olson '36 Honored
At School Reception
Rev. Aleck Olson, '36 Seminary
graduate who has been accepted as
a missionary in Northern Africa un-der
the Sudan Interior Mission, was
honored at an all school reception
held in the College Chapel Monday
evening, February 14.
The talk by Rev. Mr. Olson was
the main event of the program ten-dered
in his honor. The girls trio,
Ruth Olson, Dorothy Beckman, and
Doris Moberg; a duet by John Va-line
and Gordon Peterson; a trum-pet
solo by Kermit Johnson pre-sented
musical numbers.
Charges to the missionary were
given by Dr. K. J. Karlson in be-half
of the school and Andrew Sin-kiewicz
for the student body, and
Dr. Ahlquist for the Alumni.
Refreshments and an informal
song fest climaxed the event.
Electrician Is
On Chautauquan Series
Glenn Morris, noted electrician
entertained and enlightened a large
group showing the wonders of the
electrical phenomena at a Chautau-quan
program held in the college
Tuesday evening, Feb. 8. Mr. Mor-ris
showed how one might light the
fire or put up a flag by means of
the radio. He also demonstrated
that high frequency current will not
kill if properly handled.
Students Plan Purchase of Bus
for Gospel Team Activity
Seek A New 1938 Model Bus; Teams Are
Reorganized With College Men As Leaders
Oh Please! Won't You Be My Valentine?
Page Two THE BETHEL CLARION February, 1938
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BUSINESS STAFF
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ADVISERS
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Entered as second-class matter October 9, 1935 at the postoffice
at St. Paul, Minnesota under the act of March 3, 1879.
Did We Sound Sick and How!
At the conference game with Bethany Col-lege,
our visitors traveled about 80 miles to al-most
out number and most assuredly out cheer
the latent school spirited Bethel student body.
Why? One group went here; another went
there on Gospel teams. A few didn't go any-where.
As a consequence there were only a
few boosters at the game.
We do not minimize gospel team to basket-ball.
We do maintain that they are both im-portant
to a well balanced school life. We need
to spread the gospel while we are at school, but
we realize that the aspiring Christian worker,
the pastor, who has developed interests in extra
curricular activities, will find it much easier to
meet people, to talk to them, and to gain a
point of contact with them.
Isn't our difficulty in a lack of cooperation
in the major extra curricular activities? Can't
some changes be made that the student body
could attend conference games en masse and
on nights of gospel team lend their whole
hearted support to it? It gives appearance of a
problem of coordination to be solved by the
student council.
Want to develop school spirit? Avoid as
many conflicting extra curricular activities as
possible. Back up your Gospel team on Gospel
team night; when the night for the game comes
turn out to root and cheer for Bethel!
Timid Tid-Bits
Wasn't your envy aroused when Bethany
College sang their school song so spiritedly at
the game here? The Bethel school song con-test
closes March 1.
A few couples, daring wagging tongues, and
twinkling eyes are making their debut in Bethel
social ranks these pre-spring days. It's in the
air! Soon the most confirmed bachelor and
most invincible maid will be enticed to the
soft, sweet whispers of spring.
A few comebacks on the last issue came to
ye editor's ears after the last Clarion had been
carefully digested. One said that it was
"trashy;" another that it contained editorial
material that should have been presented per-sonally
rather than being broadcasted in the
paper. The comments do not fall on deaf ears.
We want criticism not soft soap.
Just Filling Space
Yawning depths of white space stare at us
out of the editorial column. Vague ideas flutter
into mind—flutter out.
Topics of war, politics, etc., are well covered
in various papers. We have touched, "Tardi-ness
in Chapel," "School Spirit" and a host of
subjects often spoken about but seldom acted
on.
We feel that we're about "editorialed" out.
However we realize the inconsistency of it es-pecially
when the words of Dr. F. Agar, recent
chapel speaker, are recalled, "There is that
which giveth that tendeth to increase, there is
that which witholdeth that tendeth to lose!"
A friend of Oliver Wendell Holmes reproach-ed
him for giving so many of his ideas in con-versation
hinting that they should be written
out for they had merchantable value. Holmes
replied that the mind must give its thoughts
that new ones may be given birth or it becomes
dulled and stagnant.
The expression of one idea brings out an-other,
a better one, it grows until it may as-sume
great proportions. It may become a
great book. It may be a message that shall live
long in the minds of the hearers.
Flunking
Flunking is a problem. Recently students
at Rhode Island University formed a Student
Protective Insurance Company which pays for
College make up exam fees to policy holders.
The company also gives tips on how to pass
to undergraduates who pay up their premiums.
Oklahoma University takes an opposite step
and will charge a three dollar fee per semester
hour to the student who flunks a course. The
administration feels that such a policy will
tend to weed out the careless and indifferent
student and that he should help lighten the
burden of the conscientious student by pay-ing
this fee.
How about the student who is conscientious
in his work but fails in a subject? The "F" is
discouraging enough without the extra fee. He
who flunks one or two subjects and hopes to
keep on will pay, the careless student will likely
leave school and the bill.
Such a plan will cause the student to choose
his course more carefully so that he can give
his best effort and whole interest to those sub-jects
he has signed up for.
Devotions
"And when I saw him I fell at his feet as
one dead." Rev. 1:17
The Apostle John is the penman of this
verse. He is describing the reaction that came
over him when he vouchsafed the vision of the
glorified Christ, walking among the seven
golden lamp-stands. He tells us that when he
"saw Him he fell at his feet as one dead."
As we think about this verse one thought
sweeps over us. It is just this. We too need to
see our risen Christ as He really is, in all His
majesty, glory and power even as John saw
Him. Why do we waste so much time on the
trivial things in life and spend so little time
in prayer? Why do we show such a great lack
of faith and suffer so many defeats? Why do
we deal so carelessly with the things of God
as to become almost irreverant at times? Why
do we allow petty sins to have a place in our
lives and make them unlovely? Isn't it a fact
that these things are true in the experience of
many of us because we haven't the conscious-ness
that Christ who is always by our side is
the Christ of the first chapter of Revelation.
May God give us the grace to be able to
really see Him. Certainly we all need to pray,
"Open thou mine eyes 0 God, that I might
see!"
Clayton Bolinder.
On Research
The other evening at the Chautau-quan
program, Glen Morris made
the statement that if there was any
apparent confusion between religion
and science, it was in the mind of
the individual and not in any dis-agreement
between the two. This
same statement was made by one
of our own pastors some years ago
who put the thought in these words:
that true religion and true science
do not run contrary to one another.
Glen Morris also brought out the
thought that man's knowledge is
being used for destructive rather
than for constructive purposes. His
reference was made especially to
war in which natural resources are
employed in the annihilation rather
than in a building up of society.
Science endeavors to find the so-lution
to many of the problems con-nected
with everyday life. An ex-ample
of this can be made by men-tioning
the advancement made by
medicine in its fight against some
of the most disastrous diseases.
During the six days of creation,
man was made last and with com-plete
domination over all of the
other creations of the Lord. This
placed him with special responsibil-ity
towards his own Creator. The
mind which was given to man was
given him so that he might under-stand
many of the secrets of God.
It seems that as time has gone on
since the beginning, more and more
of the wonderful secrets of the al-mightiness
of the Creator have been
discovered. One is surprised when
he realizes that many scientists who
study the great processes of life do
not come to the one and final con-clusion
that behind all things there
is one Almighty Power.
The more and more that any man
delves into the secrets of life, the
more he should become aware of the
fact that the things of the Universe
have not come to pass by chance,
but have come into being, only after
a very careful planning by One who
is the Lord of the Universe.
Appreciation of these facts allows
the young person to pursue scien-tific
research with the hopes of find-ing
still greater wells of faith in
the Lord who made the heavens and
the earth. The Lord has made all
things including man and he has
made man to have dominion over
all things. Research, therefore, is
only a tool given to man to discover
greater reservoirs of faith in the
omnipotence of the Almighty One.
Emery A. Johnson.
"For Me to Live Is Christ"
Is Theme of Meeting
"For me to live is Christ," was
the theme of the Bethel women's
association meeting on Thursday
afternoon, Feb. 10. The theme was
developed in three talks—Mildred
Synnes speaking on "For Me,"
Ethel Ahlquist on "To Live," and
Alice Anderson on "Is Christ."
Ruth Nielson sang two solos. Cab-inet
one, under the leadership of
Dorothy Beckman, had charge of
the program and social hour.
The Bethel Women's association
is a new organization for the worn-en
of Bethel and has for its purpose
the helping of its members to de-velop
a well rounded Christian life,
February, 1938 THE BETHEL CLARION Page Three
Two-Penny Lines
(With all due apologies to the Bard
of Avon.)
Good friends, sweet friends, lend
me your kind attention. I am no
writer but, as you know me all,
a plain blunt lad that loves his
fellow men. Neither wit, nor words,
nor wisdom, style nor color have
I wherewith to charm your eyes
and ears. I only speak right on;
I tell you that which you yourselves
do know already. Here, under leave
of the editor, the powers that be
and your kind condescension I write
my poor and halting words; and
shouldst thou read within the nar-row
margin of this page some word
or thought o'er done or come un-seemly
off that dost offend thee to
thy soul, I prithee, gracious friend,
if thou art still a friend, be tolerant
of thy uncouth scribe. Perchance
thou think'st that he warrants repri-mand,
lay on, but scathe him not
with scornful glance nor loathly
shun his company. But if thou
must, I pray thee, grasp him gently
by his auditory organ, and laying
thy expository thumb upon his
written sin, rebuke him thus, "Thou
errest here, and here judicious ones
must surely grieve. Thy youth dost
handicap thee dreadfully but that
great master artificer, Time, may
mend in years to come thy dis-located
joints; and, aye, mayhap if
Fortune smiles, thou mayest even
yet with me possess the Mt. Perfec-tion."
If thus thou speakest, he will
humbly bow and thank thee for thy
gracious words.
I do purpose if mind and Muse
permit
To pen some thoughts that through
my head do flit,
Though they may range from stern
philosophy
To dissertations on the joys of
coffee.
On customs, rules, and school tra-ditions
I'll zoom to Parnassus and swoop to
perdition.
On subjects as low as a class in Zoo
To worries as great as your tuition
dough,
None shall elude, my blundering
pen,
None shall find refuge beyond my
ken.
Nor shall mere bursts poetic, pro-saic
Compose the limit of my column's
mosaic,
The Muses nine I'll essay to ensnare
And drag them here, by jinks, by
the hair.
Of course just how, or when, or
where this task
I shall perform, tush, tush, don't
ask.
All I can say is have patience, dear
one,
And peruse the next issue of the
Clarion.
Yours, dedicatorily,
Sententious Cyrus.
"God always was; God always
was God; God created this world.
We are foolish if we serve anyone
else but God; man can fit into no
one else but God because we are
made in the image of God."
Rev. Thomas Williamson.
Dr. F. Agar Lectures
(Continued from page 1)
they don't speak with sinners."
In emphasizing the duties of the
church members, the expert pointed
out that they should take care of
the laity, the deacon should be the
"door to the church" and the "door
out of the church," and all should
support the pastor "regardless of
dislike as long as his character is
good."
Books written by Dr. Agar are
the following: "Local Church";
"Church Offices"; "The Deacon at
Work"; "The Minister and Oppor-tunity."
Schultz, Ferre, and
Anderson Debate
"Resolved: that the National La-bor
Relations Board should be em-powered
to enforce arbitration in
all industrial disputes" constitutes
the question for Bethel's debate
team consisting of Sam Schultz,
Gustave Ferre, and Willard Ander-son,
under the direction of Burnis
Rogness, coach.
The debate team have participat-ed
in practice debates at Macalester
and Hamline Universities, and also
entered the Red River Valley Tourn-ament
at Concordia College in
Morehead in which thirty-seven
schools with ninety teams took
part.
Plans for this semester as yet are
not definite. Debates are being
contemplated with Waldorf, Thief
River Falls, and other places.
The debate coach, Burnis Rog-ness,
is now attending the Lutheran
Seminary, previously having been
the champion debater at Augustana
College, Sioux Falls, S. Dak.
Thirty Six Students Make
Institute Honor Roll
"Early to bed, early to rise, makes
a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
In spite of the fact that the first
half of this saying does not apply
to Bethel students, still thirty-six
succeeded in meeting the require-ments
of the honor roll. Everyone
with a "B" or more average is in-cluded
on the list.
In the Junior College, those head-ing
the list are: Florence Dunning,
Luetta Schmidt, Hilton Hanson,
Gerald Ahlquist, Paul Lundgren,
Archie Weniger, Martha McMillen,
Marie Dahlberg, Dorothy Beckman,
Arthur Slaikeu, Ruth Olson, and
Lawrence Lee. Those enrolled in
the Christian Worker's Course with
a "B" average or better are the
following: Winston Sherwick, Mil-dred
Synnes, Maxine Luhman, Phyl-lis
Swanson, and Olga Shenning.
In the Seminary the following
students had all "A's": Clayton Bo-linder,
Edward Nelson, Lois Sorley,
Wilbur Sorley, and Herman Tegen-feldt.
The following had "A's" and
"B's": Aymond Anderson, Folke
Ferre, Orville Johnson, Maurice
Lawson, Carl Lindman, Florence
Lindstrom, Raymond Martin, Henry
Rahn, Ruth Tegenfeldt, and Maur-ice
Wessman. Bruce Fleming, Rod-ger
Goodman, Egon Hadley, and
Floyd Richert complete the roll in
the Seminary with an average of
"B" or better.
Room Rant
Gordie Anderson isn't the only
one who can seal engagements;
Roger promised to give Ruth a ring
the other night and even specified
the time—thus the reason for Ruth's
phone call at eight that same eve-ning.
. . . Johnnie, Dale, and Folke now
make frequent visits to the girl's
dorm—they are taking piano lessons
(relax again). Enthusiastic Dale in-quired
the exact date of the recital
after his lesson.
. . . February 14 found the girls'
dorm flooded with candy and flow-ers
from thoughtful friends at home
—young gentlemen and otherwise
(the otherwise referring to families.)
. . . Keep it quiet, but Muriel
Trowbridge has two very attentive
cousins. They have good-lookin'
uniforms and everythin'.
. . . Carol Wuerch has already
reached the place of receiving at
least one 'phone call daily from the
same person. Wonder what the
others lack? By the way, their
chief topic of conversation seems to
be radio programs.
. . . D. D. seems to have lost in-terest
in the girls at the dorm. Some
outside attraction seems to be tak-ing
most of her time. Kinda tough,
tho, with only one late leave. Last
week, after that one was gone, she
decided to entertain her company
at the dormitory after 10:30, but
evidently Mrs. Lee thought Dorothy
needed sleep, and therefore broke
up the party.
. . . It has been rumored that
Carol Nelson is going to publish a
booklet "How to Get Plenty of
Sleep Without Going to Bed." She
experimented herself during exam
week by not getting between the
sheets from Sunday until Friday.
The secret seems to be: take a little
nap whenever you feel like it and
wherever you are.
. . . Ten good-sized girls pounced
in on poor little Neoma the other
night to give her an initiation bath-tub
party. The joke was reversed
when the tiny victim calmly walked
to the bathroom and got in without
any assistance.
Boarding Club Adds
To Working Force
Because of an increased number
of members of the boarding club,
the club board met, February 11
and hired another student, a girl,
to work in the kitchen.
The naming of another to the
kitchen force increases their num-ber
to six students and the cook.
Two college students are in charge
of the College "Coffee Shoppe."
About 80 students take their meals
at the Seminary dining hall. This
is an increase of 20 over last year.
Members of the board are Pierre
Tangent, steward; Kermit Johnson,
secretary; Carl Holmberg, Clifford
Dickau, and Harold Wilson. Dr. K.
J. Karlson is adviser to the board.
"II Cor. 5 should be read the first
day of every year; it contains so
many 'new things': a new birth, a
new home, a new faith, a new ob-ject,
a new attitude, a new occupa-tion,
and a new ambition." Rev.
Ralph Stewart.
Heard in Chapel
"Missions are a command but God
does not use force; our obedience is
voluntary."
"Loyalty should be to the church,
not to any one department."
"Worshipping, witnessing, serv-ing,
and giving are the requirement
—or rather should be—of those who
enter church; we could drop sixty
per cent of our church members
and still be stronger than we are
now." Dr. F. Agar.
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Page Four THE BETHEL CLARION
February, 1938
Waldorf Warriors
Outclass
Bethel Team
Scanlon of Waldorf
Best on Floor
The Waldorf cagers, in a fast, ex-citing
basketball game, outclassed a
stubborn, hard-fighting Bethel team
on the Bethel floor, Feb. 4.
The Waldorf Warriors grabbed an
early lead and maintained it
throughout the first half though
Bethel continually threatened to
break in and take the lead. Coming
back for the second half with the
score 15-14 in favor of the Warriors
from Forest City, the Bethel team
gave everything they had in a des-perate
effort to eke out a victory.
Their effort looked as if it might
bring results.
Throughout the third and part of
the fourth quarter, Bethel kept a
two to four point lead. But the pace
proved too swift and the race too
hard for the Bethel five and Wal-dorf,
with their star forward, Scan-lon,
suddenly finding his eye, put
on a last spurt that netted them the
victory. Scanlon, with his fast
break and dead shot, was the out-standing
player on the floor.
In a preliminary game the Bethel
"B" team were edged out by Min-nehaha
Academy 28-27.
Red and White Play
New Ulm for Win
After five straight attempts to
break into the win column in the
conference games, the Bethel cagers
finally succeeded in defeating New
Ulm 19-15 on Bethel's floor. The
game was slow. Bethel played the
worst brand of ball displayed this
season. It was saved from defeat
by New Ulm being unable to take
advantage of the breaks. Richert
and A. Johnson led the scoring for
Bethel gaining 13 points between
them.
Cagers Win Return Game
With "U" Farm School
Bethel for the second time this
season won over the University
Farm school 23-14 after defeating
them 47-13 on their own floor earlier
in the season. Both teams showed
plenty of fight. Bethel showed dis-tinct
improvement in handling the
ball and in their passing.
In a preliminary game the Bethel
"B" team defeated the Farm School
"B" team 25-9.
Bethany College Cops Win
From Red and White
Trying desperately after four
straight conference defeats to win
from Bethany, Bethel's hopes again
were dashed by the margin of three
baskets. Once more Bethel had the
lead in the third and most of the
fourth quarter only to wilt before
a last minute onslaught, Bethany
winning 30-23.
Girls' Team Wins; Drotz
Takes Scoring Honors
In a preliminary game the Bethel
Girl's team trounced Minneapolis
First Girl's team. Dorothy Drotz
led both teams in scoring, swishing
the hoop for 10 baskets.
ALUMNI
Donald A. Clover '37, graduate of
the Seminary was ordained to the
ministry at Barron, Wisconsin, Jan.
4. Rev. Clover has been pastor of
the Barron Baptist Church for near-ly
a year beginning his work there
before he graduated from the Sem-inary
last spring.
Aleck Olson '36, also a graduate
of the Seminary was recently or-dained
to the ministry at Karlstad,
Minn.
While teaching at Litchfield, Leon-ard
Larson is taking post-graduate
work at the University of Minn.
RLou Markell, infant daughter of
Rev. and Mrs. David Guston has
usurped her parent's place in the
Bristol, Conn. church. Rev. and Mrs.
Guston write that they are enjoy-ing
the work in Bristol.
Ruth Adele Johnson is completing
her fifth year as school nurse in
Omaha, Neb.
The Danish Baptist Church in
Newell, Iowa, welcomed their new
pastor, Rev. Fred Swedberg, and
his wife, Feb. 6.
Another Bethelite to join the mis-sionary
ranks is Viola Steve. Miss
Steve expects to sail for Africa Feb.
24 on the S. S. Deutschland. She will
spend six months in France before
proceeding to Africa.
From Leopoldville, Belgian Con-go,
Africa, Mrs. Harry Watkins
(Linda Erickson) writes: "We are
working every day trying to do our
bit. Harry has the Bookshop, which
he started when he came out. . . .
He sells quite a few things locally
to natives and to missionaries pass-ing
through, but most of the buy-ing
is done by correspondence from
the folks inland. I am doing the
mission treasurer work, or rather
helping Harry with it. Then of
course I have my women's classes
every Wednesday and Thursday, so
you see we both manage to keep
busy."
Penny-A-Meal Contributions
Mount To Nearly $6,000
Penny-a-Meal contributions to
date total $5,973.99. California
churches as well as the Twin City
churches have reported one hun-dred
per cent on Penny-a-Meal re-turns.
The various conferences
have reported as follows:
California Conference $363.38
Columbia Conference 225.45
IIllinois Conference 1207.97
Iowa Conference 210.47
Kansas Conference 56.70
Lower Michigan Conference 163.47
Middle East Conference .... 143.33
Minnesota Conference 2001.67
Nebraska-Colo. Conference 140.04
New England Conference 230.63
New York Conference .... 352.14
North Dakota Conference 19.40
South Dakota Conference 83.60
Upper Michigan Conference 203.94
Wisconsin Conference 381.60
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Characters: Elizabeth.
Sundry other characters
Act I
(It is spring. Elizabeth, the child,
is playing on a grassy knoll. Her
mother, Marian, is watching her.)
Bird: Tweet! Tweet!
Marian: Dearest, why are you
crying?
Elizabeth: Oh, mother, I wanted
the yellow butterfly so much, and
now it has flown up over the trees.
(Curtain)
Act IT
(It is spring. Elizabeth, the high
school girl, is standing with Geral-dine
on a grassy knoll. Her arms
are outstretched. Her face is lifted
toward the sky. She has read
Byron.)
Bird: Tweet! Tweet!
Geraldine: But, Elizabeth, I would
be happy if I could play even the
housemaid's part.
Elizabeth: I wanted to be the star.
(Curtain)
Act III
(It is spring. Elizabeth, the bride,
is standing on a grassy knoll with
Theodore, her husband.)
Bird: Tweet! Tweet!
Theodore: But, dear, if you are
happy, why do you weep?
Elizabeth: I am a woman. I weep
because I am happy. (Theodore
does not know that Elizabeth is
weeping because of the hurt in her
heart. She loves a talented young
musician.)
(Curtain)
Act IV
(It is spring. Elizabeth is lying
on a grassy knoll. She is dead.)
Bird: Tweet! Tweet!
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